Man ‘kills’ puppies on Necklace Road

HYDERABAD: After the horrific instance of a street vendor killing a puppy on Tuesday, a resident has reached out to TOI to take action against a man who smashed two puppies to death on Necklace Road recently. In his letter to TOI, Rakela Srinivas explained how a man smashed the puppies to the ground and injured three others in front of him and a Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) sweeper. Srinivas was with his children when the incident took place. He said he and the GHMC staffer did not know how to help the puppies or the mother dog but wants the offender punished. “All the five puppies were hurled onto the ground with great force. Two of them died instantly. It was very shocking and disturbing to witness the incident,” said Srinivas.

“The mother dog was not around when this happened. When she returned, she was whining in pain, looking at the dead ones and the injured puppies. We do not have a 108 for animals,” he said. TOI has informed People for Animals (PFA), an NGO working for animal welfare, about the incident. “We will file a police complaint. We want the culprit to be punished,” said Dattatreya Joshi, chief executive officer, PFA.